New Research into the UK Women's Suffrage Movement.
Arts & Ideas
BBC
4.2 • 599 Ratings
🗓️ 8 March 2018
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
How did interior design help gain women the vote? Were arson attacks justified? Who took part in a six-week march? What role did an Indian princess play? Helen Pankhurst, Jane Robinson, Fern Ridell, Shahida Rahman and Miranda Garrett discuss the history of women's suffrage with Eleanor Rosamund Barraclough in this centenary year of the Bill which gave some women the right to vote.
Fern Riddell is the author of Death in 10 Minutes - Kitty Marion: Activist, Arsonist, Suffragette Helen Pankhurst is the author of Deeds Not Words: The Story of Women’s Rights, Then and Now. Jane Robinson has written Hearts and Minds: The Untold Story of the Great Pilgrimage and How Women Won the Vote. Miranda Garrett is co-editor with Zoë Thomas of Suffrage and the Arts: Visual Culture, Politics and Enterprise
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| 0:32.0 | Hello, I'm Eleanor Rosamond Barracloff. |
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| 0:56.5 | This is the BBC. |
| 1:04.0 | Hello, in free thinking today, we're doing our bit to crush the patriarchy. |
| 1:15.5 | We'll be travelling back 100 years to the time before the representation of the People Bill was backed by the House of Commons, allowing some 40% of women to have the vote for the first time. |
| 1:23.0 | Prior to the First World War, both suffragists and suffragettes had fought for the female right to vote. |
| 1:32.0 | The suffragists were a democratic organisation formed in 1897 that campaigned for women's suffrage through legal and peaceful means. On the 7th of February 1907, over 3,000 women processed through London to demand the vote in what became known as their famous mud march. |
| 1:42.1 | As their leader Millicent Garrett Fawcett put it, |
| 1:45.0 | the London weather did its worst against us. |
| 1:47.5 | Mud, mud, mud, mud was its prominent feature. |
| 1:51.1 | But the event drew thousands of spectators who came to watch women |
| 1:55.0 | of all walks of life marching peacefully for a common cause. |
| 1:59.9 | The suffragettes were formed in 1903 by Emmeline Pankhurst. |
| 2:04.7 | As well as their impassioned speeches and petitions, |
| 2:07.8 | they were also a more radical militant organisation, |
| 2:11.3 | perhaps best remembered today for arson, property damage and hunger strikes. |
| 2:16.8 | The present liberal government professed to believe in democratic government, |
| 2:22.5 | yet they refuse to carry out their principles in the case of women. |
| 2:26.9 | They must be compelled by a united and determined women's movement to do justice in this matter. |
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